2021 Spring Turkey hunting
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JEL
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Good opening morning here in MT. 
Gellar
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All western turkey hunters need to stop posting picture of their turkeys unless you want one more turkey hunter! They are just beautiful birds with those white tips and I fear I will not be able to take the temptation much longer until I have to chase them!
@RUT JUNKEY no gobbling or legal birds seen in 40mph rainy evening last night. But beware, if Wes is coming with you I found morels! Went from hunting with a crossbow to picking up shrooms 
DRS
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Opening day here in NC. After a lot of gobbling on the roost things went quiet. I continued to call occasionally and this one came in silent about 7:40. 
How did you do? I cut a couple tracks but didn't hear any gobbles strangely. Hopefully they will be a bit more fired up tomorrow!
BlakeA
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Opening day here. Made a good stalk this morning and snuck into 15 yards of this one.
Stsinclair
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Congrats to you guys! Hunted the Colorado front range opening morning yesterday, didn't hear a peep. Never got above 55 degrees so I think its a bit to early.
My nephew said the same. Even bounced a couple cows at one point.
My "Opening Day" in 3 pictures (I had to come back to my mothers in WI unexpectedly so I missed it):
1: My buddy tagged out 24 seconds after legal light in a spot he and I sniffed out in SE Colorado a couple years ago that he decided to try:
2: My nephew and future son-in-law hit our local spot. During season you need to get about 5-6 miles in before you will see birds. Opening day - that usually means you will walk past a dozen guys in the first mile that will not be seeing turkeys. They "stumbled in" to this guys blind in the MIDDLE of the trail at a major junction about 0.5 miles from the parking area when they were walking out.
3: My mothers driveway in WI - she is utterly perplexed how we need to hike in 6 miles for a turkey in CO
AggieHunter
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Front range birds are pretty quiet. Heard some gobble the evening before the opener and opening morning but nothing since
Stsinclair
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Congrats to your buddy, I want to try SE CO but need to do some scouting first, I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to that part of the state. A blind right on the road huh, I wonder if that's ever worked out for them? I think ill be heading out Wednesdasy afternoon for an evening hunt, anyone ever had luck in Pueblo SWA?
Stsinclair
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This is my first year hunting Turkey so I'm still learning, down here in Fountain there's two groups of Rios I believe that travel the creek bottom. Cant hunt them but I've gone out and practiced calling them in and man do they gobble at everything, Its giving me false expectations for these Merriams lol
Deckerp
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I am hoping some of you could give me some insight into aging turkey poop. Got out opening morning and got a few gobbles (which already made it a good day for me here along the front range in colorado) but seemed like he immediately headed in the other direction after fly down. Later on I found a ridge with many many roosting trees and tons of poop. This was lighter in color and with no white as I have seen previously. Any insights on aging poop and other poop characteristics? (Other than the shale and gender - all this appeared to be tom/male droppings). Either a few birds have been roosting in this area for awhile or many birds. Plan to get back to this spot before sun rise soon but wanting to know if this could be fairly old and they moved on or not.
Didn't hear a peep on the front range this morning either. I generally don't though haha.
Gellar
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This morning was the last morning scouting before the season opens. I heard one bird gobbling. Saturday morning I heard hens and Tom’s in several different drainages. I have to be at work around 8 tomorrow for a meeting and then I’ll be off the rest of the season. In years past I have killed several turkeys and made it to work on time. Luckily no one cares if they open the break room fridge and there’s a dead turkey in it!
Pucky Freak
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One afternoon of scouting public today
Spot 1: nothing
Spot 2: nothing
Spot 3: longbeard strutter with 2 hens
Spot 4: longbeard gobbler with what I’m pretty sure were 2 more males. Yelps in the distance.
Spot 1: nothing
Spot 2: nothing
Spot 3: longbeard strutter with 2 hens
Spot 4: longbeard gobbler with what I’m pretty sure were 2 more males. Yelps in the distance.
Gellar
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Do you have a first season tag?
Pucky Freak
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Oh yeah
Pucky Freak
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Set up for ambush. Windy. No decoys out. No other hunters (yet)
